Hypersomnia and narcolepsy are both sleep disorders that cause excessive daytime sleepiness and other changes in natural sleep-wake cycles. "Hypersomnia" actually refers to several sleep ...

While everyone occasionally battles the afternoon slump, people with hypersomnia or narcolepsy face a different reality altogether—one where the urge to sleep can strike with bulldozer force ...

Doctors aren’t sure what causes idiopathic hypersomnia. Some people who have IH also have a family member with the same problem or with another sleep condition like narcolepsy. (People with ...

Alkermes plc (Nasdaq: ALKS) today announced plans to present new research related to ALKS 2680 at SLEEP 2025, the 38th annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS), taking ...

And you have narcolepsy 1. Narcolepsy 2, which you don’t have cataplexy and you don’t have a hypocretin issue, that’s a little bit more like idiopathic hypersomnia. So there’s some cross over and some ...

It is also the only medicine approved for the treatment of both narcolepsy and another long-term sleep disorder called idiopathic hypersomnia. Although many people struggle with drowsiness and ...

A symposium held at the SLEEP 2024 Annual Meeting discussed updates in narcolepsy and idiopathic hypersomnia treatment, specifically in guidelines for treatment and testing in this population.

Dear Annie: In response to the column about the girlfriend who keeps falling asleep, I’d like to gently suggest the possibility that her issue might be physical rather than psychological.

Dear Annie: In response to the column about the girlfriend who keeps falling asleep, I’d like to gently suggest the possibility that her issue might be physical rather than psychological.